Pencil Workshop (Guided Sketchbook): Develop Your Sketching Skills in 50 Experiments, Paperback

Explore the creative possibilities of the artist's most accessible tool--the pencil

Never has the humble pencil--the most readily available and affordable of art supplies--produced such exciting and sophisticated effects. In Pencil Workshop, author and artist Sasha Prood brings a sense of experimentation and fun to sketching with graphite, colored, and watercolor pencils. Through 50 different experiments, you'll learn traditional techniques like hatching, contouring, and stippling; develop your skills by creating compositions; and try out the unique effects that you can achieve with blenders and water-soluble pencils. This unique instruction book is structured so that you have space to do pencil test swatches and draw directly on the pages next to the author's examples. Pencil Workshop provides everything you need to explore the limitless creative potential of this versatile medium

Special Features

• Full-color illustrations throughout
• Paperback with lay-flat binding

Check out the other books in this series: Watercolor Workshop, and Marker Workshop.

About author(s):Sasha Prood is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of Watercolor Workshop and Marker Workshop. Her work has been featured in books, magazines, and blogs, including ELLE Interiör, Apartment Therapy, and Oh Joy!